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you can only tax people. on top of that for democrats to go around saying when bill mmaher to say the rich are not paying their fair share. both sides have to figure out how to moderate. >> absolutely. after the $600 billion tax increase, the rate increases on top of state and local taxes. for most people in high brackets, it's well above 50%. we are done with the tax part and it's closing the so-called tax expenditures and we will do the charitable donations for wealthy people. you have to start talking about growth. whichever side really gets serious about growth, there is one or two positive things. one is energy transformation. that is exciting and made it more competitive. the president never did anything serious about trade. right now we are on the verge of starting two major trade negotiations. one is the transpacific negotiations and the others will start a u.s.-european negotiations. this involves something like 60 or 70%. this is potentially a major energy if you can get serious about trade and help
you can only tax people. on top of that for democrats to go around saying when bill mmaher to say the rich are not paying their fair share. both sides have to figure out how to moderate. >> absolutely. after the $600 billion tax increase, the rate increases on top of state and local taxes. for most people in high brackets, it's well above 50%. we are done with the tax part and it's closing the so-called tax expenditures and we will do the charitable donations for wealthy people. you have...
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washington loves to talk about taxes. a long time now sideways spending is the problem and until we talk about spending it doesn't matter what revenue you get. got to fix the spending problem. >> nancy pelosi says we don't have a spending problem. actually, you've got -- hoyer saying we do. paul krugman you don't have to worry about medicare until 2025. this has bubbled up on the left the past three or four months. we call it debt deniers here. what is going on here? >> i've been saying the same thing for ten years. since i was at the cbo. the facts haven't changed. if you look at the numbers, you know, spending at rates you cannot tax your way out of and can't grow your way out of the only thing you can do is get your arms around those programs. what it's come down to is the recognition that we have to do something different in medicare. we have to do something digit in medicaid. fix the social security on its own merits and this is really a fight about how to save the social safety net. the sad part for me is there shou
washington loves to talk about taxes. a long time now sideways spending is the problem and until we talk about spending it doesn't matter what revenue you get. got to fix the spending problem. >> nancy pelosi says we don't have a spending problem. actually, you've got -- hoyer saying we do. paul krugman you don't have to worry about medicare until 2025. this has bubbled up on the left the past three or four months. we call it debt deniers here. what is going on here? >> i've been...
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they are the tax men. >> back in russian, i dreamed someday i would be rich and famous. >> me too. that's why i became a public servant. >> reporter: the irs says the video was made for 2010 employee conference. >> you know me. >> that's right, sir. pennies on the dollar. >> reporter: oo house oversight committee demanded the video turned over and explain how much was spent. they told the irs the "star trek" video did not contain meaningful trade content. critics call the video expensive silliness. >> the american people who see this will be dismayed and disappointed and say i know those guys are wasting my money. >> reporter: the irs responded saying, in part, there is no mistaking this video do not reflect the best stewardship of resources and a video of this type would not be made today. they also made a gilligan's island spoof and actually the committee find that did have training value but not yet made that public. irs says making a lot of these videos is actually saving the taxpayer money because it's a way to get occasieducation out public or their own employees and have a s
they are the tax men. >> back in russian, i dreamed someday i would be rich and famous. >> me too. that's why i became a public servant. >> reporter: the irs says the video was made for 2010 employee conference. >> you know me. >> that's right, sir. pennies on the dollar. >> reporter: oo house oversight committee demanded the video turned over and explain how much was spent. they told the irs the "star trek" video did not contain meaningful trade...